Pre-Concentration and Solid Phase Extraction of Trace Amounts of Co(II)-BPHA On Octadecyl Bonded Silica Membrane Disk and its Application to the Determination of Trace Cobalt

H. Aref-Azar¹ and Ali Moghimi²*

¹Islamic Azad university-South Tehran Branch (Iran)

²Department of Chemistry, Varamin Campus Islamic Azad University, Varamin (Iran)

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/msri/040113

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Article Received on : 4 Jun 2007
Article Accepted on : 24 Jun 2007
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ABSTRACT:

A sensitive, selective and rapid method has been developed for the determination μg l-1 level of cobalt based on the rapid reaction of cobalt(II) with N-benzoyl-N-phenylhydroxylamine (BPHA) and the solid phase extraction (SPE) of the colored chelate with Waters Porapak Sep-Park C18 disk. The BPHA can react with Co(II) in the presence of pH 3.9 acetic acid -sodium acetate buffer solution and cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTMAB) medium to form a violet chelate of a molar ratio 1:2 (cobalt to BPHA). This chelate can retained on Waters Porapak Sep-Park C18 disk quantitatively when they passed the disk as aqueous solution. After the enrichment finished, the retained chelate can be eluted from disk by 2.5 ml of ethanol (contain 5% acetic acid). In the measured solution, the molar absorptivity of the chelate is 1.58?105 l mol-1 cm-1at 636 nm, and Beer?s law is obeyed in the range of 0.01-0.42 μg ml-1. The relative standard deviation for 11 replicate sample of 0.01 μg ml-1 level is 2.28%. The detection limit is 0.01 μg l-1 (in original samples). This method can be applied to the determination of mg l-1 level of cobalt in drinking water with satisfactory results.

KEYWORDS: Cobalt; Solid phase extraction spectrophotometry; N-benzoyl-N-phenylhydroxylamine (BPHA)

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Aref-Azar H, Moghimi A. Pre-Concentration and Solid Phase Extraction of Trace Amounts of Co(II)-BPHA On Octadecyl Bonded Silica Membrane Disk and its Application to the Determination of Trace Cobalt. Mat.Sci.Res.India;4(1)

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